Last of the Phuket beach businesses at Ley Pang fall
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More than 100 officers, including Royal Thai Navy personnel, arrived at 10am to begin taking down the buildings. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

PHUKET: -- Officials began dismantling the last two beachfront businesses deemed illegal at Ley Pang Beach today (June 28) in a move heralded as precursor to returning the beach “to the public”

More than 100 officers, including Royal Thai Navy personnel, police and local officials, arrived at the beach at 10am and began pulling down the Beach Bar 2 and Paul Restaurant.

“We are following the order issued by the NCPO (National Council for Peace and Order) and the law to remove all illegal structures from the area,” said MaAnn Samran, Chief of the Cherng Talay Tambon Administration Organisation (OrBorTor).

“We are removing these two buildings because they are encroaching on a public area and both are in breach of the Building Act. This area must be returned to the public,” he said.

Mr MaAnn explained that more than 100 businesses at Layan and Leypang beaches had been removed in previous demolitions.

Full story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/last-of-the-phuket-beach-businesses-at-ley-pang-fall-58045.php


-- Phuket News 2016-06-29

Great News. Hope they get on with "redeveloping" the area into a public park, and take down the walls and "private property" signs at the roadside etc...

Thought Ma Am quit in Jan- I guess it was just too lucrative for him to go!

Thanks to The Thai Military for pushing this.

Still no word on pursuing the administrators that instigated all these encroachments. Or do they all go scot free with their millions ?

They all go scot free with their millions. One of them is now a senior soccer administrator.

Great News. Hope they get on with "redeveloping" the area into a public park, and take down the walls and "private property" signs at the roadside etc...

It is good news, and by the way what's happened at Paradise beach? What astounds me too is the illegal vendors themselves seem to avoid criminal charges for operating on public land? Free to go?

It is good news, and by the way what's happened at Paradise beach? What astounds me too is the illegal vendors themselves seem to avoid criminal charges for operating on public land? Free to go?

Never 'free to go' - they will pay plenty of Baht to get off the hook.